And since when can ABs ‘win the Bledisloe’ after winning 1 match from a 3-match Series ?

You left out World Champions 2011…

Of course that is no reason to sit back – there will still be the game in SA to watch – have the Bok learnt anything yet?

“I heard there going to use a SA style aerial bombardment and not run the ball at all ”

Nice, you have set today’s precedent with that crack.

Great.

My favourite referee, Craig Joubert.

How lucky we are.

Watch out for Our Craig to get influenced by the crowd, or overturn a decision because the Captain asked nicely, or allow a linesman to overrule him whilst looking deadly serious indeed, or make a completely wrong call on a match-turning decision.

Its surer than death.

More games isn’t it?

I’ve read “theories” on other forums that they didn’t reduce the ban just so the RSA’s don’t s.h.i.t their pants again.

What an uncontrollable sense of entitlement some of them have!

Teams kicking off to the opposition are using shorter kicks, forcing the 9 to pass the ball from outside his 22 to the 10 waiting inside the 22. Of course, kicking the ball out directly then will only result in a line out from where you’ve kicked.

In general, teams are instead trying to win field position and trying to force the opposition to kick the ball out so that we can get the throw-in.

But of course – and I think this is your observation too – you can aim to kick a ball out without doing it in direct fashion (forcing it into the corners behind the back 3).

I think this is a very good point you’ve raised.

I always thought Morne was not kicking out on purpose under teh old rules, because that way we got better defensive alignment when they ran it back at us. But now it seems we dont, and we still dont klick it out properly?

As far as I can tell, he has been asked during an interview relating to other rugby issues he is involved with what his thoughts are on the AB’s this year, and this is what he has come up with. Fair enough.

But so what. Ask anyone else who knows anything remotely about rugby and you will get the same comment.

Except the way the Rueters article is presented it suggests he called a press conference to echo what the man in the street is saying.

Okay, hardly his fault, but I also dismiss his comments as nothing more than a media interview version of flotsam.

Probably

They are looking quite good.

Skirt

I dont know where or why you think his comments warrant committing to predicting the ABs are the next best thing. Clearly the comment,

“I suspect that it’s a side at the moment that’s probably on the verge of greatness and looking back at the last decade, probably getting back to the Fitzpatrick-type days — that kind of team that’s quite measured and doing very well,”

says it all. PROBABLY is mentioned twice.

Think you should try reading it again… ‘probably’ you will come up with what most would reading it.

Have fun

He is non committal, suggesting he supports the idea the AB’s are the next big thing, but doesn’t actually say that in his opinion they are the next big thing.

As you say, what he has stated is exactly what everyone else is saying. What makes his comments any more worthy than the man in the street.

It is hardly enlightening.